Man this is like my biggest fear. Imagine you slip and fall in the water in front of all those people, and they all laugh at you and then you have to climb back up and go to work soaking wet, and everyone at work knows you fell in because why else would you be soaking wet,
Yeah I don’t think people would all laugh, they would help you get back on the chairs as they fear being cold from wet clothes themselves. Those are likely people of all ages.
One of the key events that gave the United States the politically-charged push into the war was the sinking of the Lusitania, and it was done by a German u-boat.
Here’s another weird one you didn’t expect: Germans used zeppelins to bomb London.
The very first sinking of a ship by a submarine occurred during the U.S. Civil War, in fact!
Both the Union and Confederacy operated submarines during the war.
The very first U.S. “submarine” was used during the Revolutionary War, but it was more of a one off novelty than a move forward in industrialized war like in the Civil War.
This also happened in conjunction with the rise of ironclads, with the first ironclad vs ironclad battle also occurring in the Civil War.
Right? I always think of submarines as small and cramped, and while they are certainly cramped, they're not generally small. Lot of machinery goes into those beasts.
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